illumos gate

I have a patch to net-routing-setup to also examine /etc/inet/static_routes early when determining defrouters. This way, default static routes will also cause net-routing-setup to disable routeadm/default-ipv4-routing.

net-routing-setup already iterates through /etc/inet/static_routes as the last stage in its processing for "Adding persistent routes:", so this could not be considered a major change to the script.

I've run into this annoyance too. If one uses "route -p ..." to setup a default route,
at some later date (i.e. after some sleep/resume cycles on a laptop) one may
discover that in.routed has removed the static route.

Note, "route -p ..." stores the persistent state in /etc/inet/static_routes.

Work around: create /etc/defaultrouter instead.

The routing package could perhaps be removed from:

oi-userland/components/meta-packages/install-types/includes/minimal

Currently (as of 2022) it is in the minimal group. The minimal server install currently includes:

depend type=require fmri=system/network/routing

I have tested that it is fairly easy to uninstall the package using

pkg uninstall -v routing

(or if necessary:

pkg uninstall mate_install
pkg uninstall -v routing

In the latter case it simply removes the group mate_install (without actually uninstalling MATE nor installing any apps , nor uninstalling the desktop itself)

Uninstalling the routing package uninstalls stuff like

usr/lib/inet/in.ndpd
usr/lib/inet/in.ripngd
usr/sbin/in.rdisc
usr/sbin/in.routed
usr/sbin/rtquery

perhaps IPV6 in.ndpd could be moved into a separate package instead of routing.

I'll open a separate feature request for that
( in.ndpd - daemon for IPv6 autoconfiguration )

I've also tested that if you do:

pkg uninstall mate_install
pkg uninstall routing

if you later do a

pkg update -v -f

it does not reinstall routing (in a new update). As long as you don't reinstall the mate_install group of course.

Updates of what was installed by the mate_install are still going to happen.